cataclysmal

English

Etymology

From cataclysm +‎ -al.

Adjective

cataclysmal (comparative more cataclysmal, superlative most cataclysmal)

1. As noisy or destructive as a cataclysm.
   • 1861, Richard Owen, Palaeontology Or A Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their Geological Relations:

     That they have been exterminated by exceptional cataclysmal changes of the earth's surface has not been proved.

   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     Perhaps she’s so deaf that nothing short of a cataclysmal uproar will reach her auditory nerves.

Synonyms

• cataclysmic